Left behind no more

Sorry for the wait, my teachers dumped a pile of work on me, making me fall behind in my writing, but anyway…thanks for the nice reviews, I also have a poll in my profile on what Kagome crossover I should do next, and I'm closing it when I get 10 votes for the most wanted one. So feel free to send me ideas for future stories. Here's chapter 5...

________________________________Chapter 5__________________________________________

It started getting dark and Kagome wondered, if it was just her or were they lost. "Great I think we're lost, because I do recall seeing that rock that looks like a face quite a few times" Kagome thought bitterly.

She noticed that Uryu seemed to have notice they were lost as well as Orihime and Chad. Finally having enough, Uryu asked making everyone screech to a halt.

"I'm not sure exactly how to say this but… unless you've been meaning to take us in circles…we're lost" Uryu stated. Ganju and the others seemed to already know this would happen. "Great" Kagome groaned under her breath. "Shut up and let me think for a second" Ganju yelled. Everyone was silent for what seemed like forever. "Well, that's that, I think we can say, this is this and that is that, right" Ganju finally said breaking into a laughing fit, before stopping to find people coming from up ahead. "Let's ask them" Kagome question. "Let me handle this" Ganju said standing in their way.

They stopped having noticed someone was in their way, and they didn't seem like the type to be friendly either. "Who the hell are you" one asked. "I'll ask the questions here if you don't mind" Ganju replied. "What are you talking about" the second growled. "Listen numb nuts, we're from Kusagishi (sp)" the first added more tougher. "I see… then this will make this easier then" Ganju replied. "Is everything alright Ganju" Orihime asked. "I got this situation under control, after all I'm Ganju Shiba, the self proclaimed ruler of the west Rukon district, the self proclaimed fastest cashier in Karukura" Ganju stated boastfully.

"There's no doubt about it, Ganju is defiantly a legend in his own mind" Kagome, Uryu and Orihime said together sheepishly. Then Ganju charged at them head on creating a bug dust cloud in his wake.

After the dust settled, it showed who the winner was. There stood Bonnie with three men knocked out on the ground.

"Wow" Kagome mumbled sarcastically.

"Now, now, don't go giving Ganju here all the credit, it was Bonnie here and the others who knocked them out" Kurodo stated

"I never knew Kurodo can be so jealous" Kagome thought with a smirk.

Ganju was about to say something when Kagome felt and heard Ichigo's spiritual pressure, along with Chad and Orihime.

"That's Ichigo alright and…hey where's Uryu" Kagome asked finally noticing that one of them was missing.

"He was here just a second ago…" Chad replied looking around for Uryu.

"He probably went in Ichigo's direction" Orihime said walking in the direction and was stopped by Ganju.

"No wait, let's just leave that mess to the two of them" Ganju said.

"Yea but…" Orihime started, then Kagome cut in.

"They will be fine without us, besides we have bigger things to worry about, we have to find out if the bounts are in Kusagishi or not" Kagome stated walking up to one of the men and taped him awake. "No…please don't hurt me miss…" he said surrendering.

"I'm not going to hurt you but, can you please tell me about the new strangers in Kusagishi" Kagome asked crouching down in front of him.

"S-Sure…um…their leaders name is Kariya…or something like that" he replied. "What is he doing there exactly" Kagome asked again.

"Well, he said he is going to turn the soul society upside-down and he is trying to get people to join him" he said. "Continue…" Kagome said. "Well, right now their at the gambling house where the boss in town is, Kariya said anyone who goes there…would have something good happen to them" he said finishing with a smile.

"Thanks pal you've been great" Ganju said knocking him out. "Ganju…what do we do now" Orihime asked. "Well we have to go to this gambling house" Ganju replied. "You know if their recruiting people there…that could be dangerous" Chad added. "Yea I know" Ganju replied not liking the idea as well. Kagome pondered on both of the ideas rationally, but seeing they were in a situation where both answers were dangerous; it will all end up in the same area of danger. Then Ganju spoke up grabbing everyone's attention.

"Just the same…it looks like I'm going to have to him…" Ganju said, saying the word him like it was the last option on earth.

"Do you mean…who I think you mean" Ganju's friend asked in fear. "The bull of Kusagishi" Ganju replied. "Ganju you can't be serious, it's way too dangerous, what are you going to do when you meet him anyway" Ganju's friend asked.

Kagome was confused, as was Chad and Orihime. Who was this 'bull of Kusagishi' anyway, and Ganju's friend said it would be dangerous too.

"…It's not that simple though Ganju, what if Bull is there with the bounts right now" Ganju's friend said. "I don't think so, Bull is not one to be persuaded by the bounts arguments" Ganju replied finally, then looking at the rest of them for a agreement. "So what do you say you three" Ganju asked. Kagome thought for a moment and came up with an answer. "Well I guess we have no other choice" Kagome said unsurely, getting a nod from both Chad and Orihime as well. Ganju call Bonnie and he started to lead the way and everyone followed after him.

She wasn't sure how long they were out and Kagome was almost exhausted, and she wasn't so sure she should use her powers to help herself, considering if a bount showed up she would need her powers to fight and heal. Also having to be tiered during a fight would also be bad for her, so coming up with a solution she rested her head on Chad's back; he didn't seem to mind her actions at all.

"Alright hold up Bonnie, take a rest" Ganju said after a while, stopping a small clearing. "Now lets see, Unless I'm wrong, he should be right around here" he continued pondering for a moment. Kagome woke up after they stopped. Ganju whistled and they waited for a few minutes seeing nothing happened at first. The bushes started rustling and Kagome turned and saw they were surrounded by men. "What's…this…" Chad asked tensing a little. "The Bull of Kusagishi" Ganju replied.

Then a man with brown hair and a scar running down his eye approached them. "So what are you after Ganju" Bull said with a smirk, giving Kagome a uneasy feeling about him. "It's been awhile Bull" Ganju replied.

"So what is it you need Ganju" Bull asked bringing them into a grassy area outside the forest. Dawn broke through the trees and Ganju explained the situation to Bull. After a few minutes bull said to wait here while he checked what was going on in Kusagishi.

It was almost noon before they all saw Bull return from his investigation, and he looked like he was pleased from his expression.

"I got news from some scouts about Kariya's gang" Bull said walking up to them. "So lets hear it, what kind of trouble is he stirring up" Ganju asked.

"Plenty, he's gathered a pretty big crowd of followers in just a short time" Bull replied.

"Wow that many, this Kariya is desperate to get help" Kagome thought.

"Word is he's lured in thugs and low-life's from all over Kusagishi already, their a pretty tough bunch too, but of course they don't have any spirit energy on their side, so even in large numbers they can't hope to win against soul reapers in the end" Bull informed. "Except soul reapers won't fight for real against ordinary humans, and fighting while holding back is a huge burden" Ganju replied. "Good point, your right" Bull admitted with a smirk.

"But the bount's have been out-numbered before, don't you think by now they would be able to come up with some sort of countermeasure" Kagome asked adding her two-cents.

"She's right there too, then what's your plan then Ganju" Bull asked looking at Ganju, who had a grin. "We're going to stop them…, because mobs don't have any disciplined, and we will take advantage of that and make it easier for the soul reapers to fight them by breaking up the crowd…" Ganju said trailing off. "Which is where you come in brother" Ganju said hugging the now surprised Bull. "And since when am I your brother Ganju" replied obviously not impressed with the man.

"Look we don't have a lot of time here, so I need you to gather as many men as possible, alright" Ganju informed. "Ganju why the hell is this suddenly so important to you" Bull asked eyeing his strange 'brother'.

"Well for one a friend of mine is going up against the bounts, and is working really hard at it too, he also asked me for my help" Ganju started. "No only that but you wouldn't let these young ladies fight this battle alone now would you" Ganju continued putting an arm around Kagome and Orihime, but mostly receiving a heated glair from Kagome for pointing out they were weak.

Then Kurodo got into on of his long poetic speeches making Kagome space out for a moment.

"Anyway these bounts gave my friend and Kagome here a hard time, and I want to make sure Kagome survives this, or my friend will have my hide" Ganju replied, also mentally thinking of the possibilities that would happen if Ichigo found out if something bad happened the raven haired girl.

"Wow, you having to care about friends…that's a little surprising coming from you Ganju, but what the heck… I never really liked the leader of Kusagishi anyway, and besides I'm not one to let two nice looking ladies get roughed up,… so I Dichi Hiyrosako (don't know how to spell his name) the Bull of Kusagishi here by agree to help you Ganju" Bull said.

"Ok I guess that 'Bull' wasn't his real name after all then" Orihime said, also getting a nod from Kagome.

"What made you decided to go with that name, instead of your real name" Chad asked, and they all regretted asking once they heard him chuckle and give a evil smirk.

"Because its cool" Bull said making a real weird pose with Ganju, getting sweat drops from everyone.

"O…k then" Kagome thought humorously. Then Bull asked his followers to round up everyone they could find to take on the mob then he ran off.

"Well I guess we better head off too" Ganju started.

A really loud growl erupted from two people in the group. Kagome and Orihime both blushed in embarrassment as there stomachs cried out for food.

"I guess we should stop for a few minutes to eat, considering we were up all night" Ganju said realizing just how long they went without food.

"Well we certainly can't go into a battle famished now can we…" Kagome said reaching into a small pouch in her quiver and brought out a couple of rice balls.

"What lovely thinking Kagome, you seemed to have been prepared for something like this" Kurodo said as Kagome handed out the rice balls. Orihime sent out one of her shun shun rikka to go find and tell Ichigo about the bounts in Kusagishi, and what the plans were. Also Ganju stated that they would wait a little while and rest while Bull got together a crowd to take on the riot.

A couple of minutes later Orihime's shun shun rikka returned saying that Ichigo was going to meet them there with Uryuu as well. The group finished dinner, after hearing that Bull was heading towards the riot witch would give them the advantage to sneak in on the bounts.

Ganju stated that if they left now they would be able to catch up with Ichigo and Uryuu, as well as reach them by dark. After said that everyone prepared to move out.

Now they were heading into the forest and it started getting dark.

"It's a little odd don't you think Chad, I mean wouldn't they have men out here patrolling the area" Kagome asked. "Yea…" Chad replied. "Maybe Ichigo already took care of them, or maybe their further ahead" Orihime said

Just as Kagome was about to say something a group of men with weapons charged at them. "I guess I spoke too soon then" Kagome sadly. Though the bore they were riding on took them out no problem and Chad took a few out as well.

"I feel Ichigo's spirit energy up ahead" Kagome said, she was also unsure of the other two strange auras that were there.

Just then the bull they were riding on suddenly took off extremely fast making Kagome burry her head in Chad's back. Orihime who was behind them was sounding like she was having fun. Just how crazy can people get.

They broke through the trees and came upon Ichigo and Uryuu. Screeching to a halt Kagome swore she lost her stomach back in the forest.

"Hey Ichigo" Kagome asked recovering from the ride.

"Kagome, Chad, Orihime what are you guys doing here" Ichigo asked

"We came with Ganju and his friends to help with the thugs that were gathering here, but… it seems there aren't as many as we once thought" Kagome replied getting off the bull.

"We are aware of that" a white haired soul reaper stated.

"Your all too late anyways" a voice said. Kagome noticed that it was the same soul reaper from before, when she first saw the bounts.

"What do you mean…"Kagome mumbled under her breath.

"You will not interfere, I won't let you get to master Kariya" he said. Having said that everyone tensed, .

"And just how do you plan to keep us from getting to Kariya, considering your outnumbered seven to one, your pretty confident" the white haired boy said a bit irritated.

"Don't go judging him yet, from what I learned that you should never underestimate an opponent" Kagome thought absently, while preparing herself for whatever may come as the soul reaper pointed his sword at them.

"None of you are going anywhere…" he said turning his sword around him, and his sword turned white, then the whole area turned bright making Kagome cover her eyes.

"It's a light based attack" Kagome thought as the area then turned yellow making everyone who was in sight disappear.

"Where did…" Kagome started sending out her power to try and locate everyone or the enemy.

"Don't get reckless, because we will only be attacking each other" the while haired boy said.

"So its an illusion based light attack" Kagome thought. She nearly jumped out of her skin when put a hand on her shoulder, at first she thought it was the enemy and then it turned into Chad.

"Chad…you scared me for a second" Kagome mumbled, putting a hand over her heart.

"…Your correct my zanpaktou is light based, the light that it releases is reflected and refract, creating a new space making an illusion" he said, seemingly all around them, making it harder for Kagome to find him. "just like the bounts…"Kagome murmured.

Just then a cry rang out from Rangiku making Kagome tense, knowing if they couldn't find him he would pick them off one by one. "none of you will be leaving here alive" he said again.

Kagome could feel her powers prickling, sensing an attack, but from where.

"Kagome look out behind you" she heard Chad say. Kagome turned and saw the man swinging his sword at her fast, leaving her no time to put up a defense.

Out of no where a sword swung at him blocking his attack on her, Kagome noticed a very tall man with spiked black hair standing in front of her. He then summoned an enormous amount of power and made the surrounding light disappear, also almost making Kagome fall from the force and power of the man in front of her.

"Well if it isn't Ichinose, its been a while" the man said, making Kagome quiver.

"Zaraki…" Ichinose said in horror as he was pushed back in such force, Kagome sword she heard the guys bones break.

Then a small girl with bubble gum pink hair came out saying something to Orihime.

"Hey Ichigo, when you visit the soul society, you should see me first, I'll fire up the old barbeque" Kenpachi said.

"Well I'll do that" Ichigo said sheepishly.

"This one of your friends Ichigo" Kagome said a little sarcastically.

"Look Kenny, Ichi has a new friend too" The girl with pink hair said.

"It appears so…"Kenpachi said looking at Kagome, making her cringe because of his power.

For some odd reason the pink haired girl reminded her of Shippo in a way. Chad moved so Kagome was behind him somewhat as the Ichinose guy moved to stand. She listened to the conversation between the man Kenpachi and Ichinose, apparently Kenpachi knew him.

"I see your still the same person as always,… so what's your plan you were probably given orders to stop us weren't you,…an if that's the case then I won't try to stop you" Kenpachi taunted, making Kagome tense, was he just going to let him attack them.

"…That is if you still got a grudge against me, then you should fight me instead" Kenpachi continued. Ichinose stood up making everyone tense, and after a few minuets of silence he raised his sword, then raised his power level. Kenpachi smirked and raised his sword as well.

Ichigo was about to go after him when the pink haired girl who Kagome learned was named Yachiru stopped them. "I think you should let Kenny and Maki settle this one by themselves" Yachiru stated with a smile. "Are you sure" Kagome asked a little worried, and Yachiru grinned wider.

"After all that's happened I think Maki would like that a lot" Yachiru replied.

"I guess I…" Ichigo started.

"Come on we gotta go" Toshiro said cutting Ichigo off.

"Lets go Ichigo" Kagome said tugging on Ichigo's sleeve. "Right, coming" Ichigo replied running to catch up with the others. Chad seemed to notice that Kagome was struggling to keep up, but he couldn't blame her because they traveled for two days now. Quickly coming up with an answer he went over to Kagome and picked her up earning a small yep of surprise; he placed her on his back so she was ridding piggy-back style with her arms slung against his neck so she wouldn't choke him.

Kagome thankful that she wasn't wearing her school uniform skirt, and was wearing a miko outfit instead, or this would have been awkward. Sure she went piggy-back riding with Inuyasha but somehow this was different; was it because she didn't have to ask him like Inuyasha, or was it something else.

"This will be faster Kagome, and you looked like you were ready to fall over" Chad answered sensing she was tense a bit.

"Ok" she replied, mentally cursing herself for showing weakness again, but she was grateful. Though that didn't stop the blush from appearing on her face. Then Chad started to run to catch up with the others, making Kagome hold on, but not choking him.

Ichigo and the other soul reapers were ahead of them and the rest of the group followed after them at a somewhat slower pace. The sun started to come up over the hill and Kagome noticed that time passes by fast in the soul society.

After a few minutes of running they started to see the gate that surrounded the city, and in Kagome's opinion it was huge. Then when they came closer to it she noticed that there was a 'big' man on the ground with a deep wound on his shoulder and a big wooded contraption opening the gate. Chad let her down and Kagome walked over to the large man and inspected his wound

"How is he Kagome" Orihime asked walking up beside her. "He's fine, I'll get started on healing him" Kagome said activating her powers and worked on healing the man.

"KARIYA" Ichigo shouted getting the said mans attention and he turned and blasted a gust of wind at them and the contraption started to sway till if fell over, making her cover her face to avoid the debris from going into her eyes. After the wind died down she heard a crack and the wooden beam holding the gate open fell, making the gate come down with a crash.

"Damn" Ichigo cursed, Kagome put a hand on his shoulder and gave a look that said 'it couldn't be helped'.

"Kagome how is Jidonbo doing, can you heal him" Ichigo asked softer.

"Yea, I can fix him up quick" Kagome replied smiling, trying to calm Ichigo down. She walked over to Jidonbo and placed her hands above the wound and released her miko healing abilities to the wound. "Do you need any help Kagome" Orihime asked, kneeling next to Kagome. "Sure, we can combined our powers to make the wound heal faster, but I'm not sure if it will…" Kagome started and was cut off by Orihime. "Then lets give it a try then" Orihime replied activating her Shun-shun rikka. It mingled with Kagome's power and it made a more quicker healing process.

After about two minutes Kagome noticed the man was coming to. "He's waking up" Kagome said. After saying that she was met with a gaze of the giant man. He then picked himself off the ground in a daze before looking at Kagome and Orihime.

"Glad you awake, you looked like you took a hard hit" Kagome stated softly. "Welcome back" Orihime said. "It's you again, and you have a friend with you…What happened, don't tell me you two saved me" Jidonbo said sheepishly.

"Well that's not important now, how's your arm feeling" Kagome asked. "It's not bad, soon I will be as good as new again" Jidonbo replied.

"Ichigo it's just as I thought, its going to take some time before we can open the gate" Renji said. "But we don't have that kind of time, for all we know the bounts can be killing many people" Kagome thought bitterly.

"Unless…" Ichigo muttered before looking at Jidonbo. "Hey Jidonbo I know that you have been injured pretty bad, but do you think you can open up the gate for us" Ichigo asked. "Of course why wouldn't I, I've still got two arms" Jidonbo replied happily. "Just don't push yourself to hard" Kagome said as she watched the mammoth sized man take position near the gate. "Don't worry I'll be fine" was Jidonbo's only reply. He put his hands under the gate and started to lift the gate slowly, making Kagome stare in amazement at the strength of the man, especially since he had an injured arm.

"Great you did it Jidonbo, alright everyone lets go" Ichigo stated before taking off towards the gate with everyone following him. But as soon as they were about to go under the gate Jidonbo looked like he was going to drop it anytime.

"Are you alright Jidonbo" Ichigo called

"I'm fine don't worry about me, but you better hurry up" Jidonbo said through gritted teeth.

"The strain from lifting the gate has reopened his wounds" Uryuu said. "Then what are we standing here for he's sacrificing himself and we're wasting time, so lets get it in gear everyone" Ichigo stated ushering everyone to the other side of the gate.

"Thank you Jidonbo" Kagome said getting to the other side of the gate. Then she noticed Uryuu had stopped for Orihime who was on the other side of the gate still.
"What's wrong" Ichigo asked after seeing Kagome stop. "Sorry Ichigo, but I will have to stay behind to make sure all of Jidonbo's injuries are healed" Orihime stated and started to take Kurodo off her shoulders. "…and you need to go along with the others Kurodo" Orihime continued tossing Kurodo thought the gate. "You sure your going to be ok Orihime" Kagome asked making sure Orihime was ok with her decision. "Don't worry Kagome I'll be fine…Jidonbo you can let go now" Orihime said and told Jidonbo to release the gate.

Just as she said that Jidonbo released the gate and Kurodo ran to get back with Orihime, who was now on the other side of the gate. "No, Orihime…" Kurodo stammered looking at the closed gate. "Don't worry Kurodo we will see Orihime again, and besides we need you here more then ever" Kagome said trying to make him calm down.

"Lirin are you sensing anything" Ichigo asked turning to her. "Right now I'm not sensing anything, so they must be hiding somewhere" Lirin replied. "Fine then, they can't hide forever and still do what they want what they came here to do, soon or later they are going to have to reveal themselves to us, and we will need you three to help us since you're the best around at sensing bout spiritual pressure" Ichigo stated.

"Well if you put it that way, it's true…" Kurodo muttered.

"Please Kurodo, we need your help on this" Kagome pleaded giving a small hint of puppy eyes.

"Well why didn't you say so in the first place, of course I will help you in whatever it takes to find these delinquent bounts…and…I" Kurodo continued, making Kagome tune out the long speech he was giving. "Wow, Ichigo how did you put up with him" Kagome whispered to him. "You have no idea" Lirin replied in annoyance.

"Alright lets split up, we have to pick up the trail and hunt the bounts down" Toshiro stated. "Right let's move out" Ichigo stated as they all split up once again.

Kagome ran with Chad and Noba since he was the closest to her, and the three ran off into the north-west direction.

"Are you sensing anything yet Nobe" Chad asked. "No, not yet" Noba replied.

"At this rate the bounts could have done something bad by now and we can't even sense it, at this point we are at a disadvantage" Kagome thought chewing on her lip.

"Kagome what's wrong" Chad asked, as they kept running. "It's just that, we're at a disadvantage at this point, if we can't sense them then they could have done some damage by now" Kagome replied straightly.

"Don't worry we will find them, if not Ichigo will" Chad replied. "I guess so, but I hope we find them in time" Kagome replied quietly. She had a bad feeling at the back of her mind something wasn't right about how the bounts were hiding, it was too quiet. She also hoped everyone would be alright.

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Well here is chapter 5 and I just started on chapter 6 at the moment. And lets say I didn't forget about the mystery person, lets say you will find out in a few more chapters who this person is.

Again thank you for the comments on my story.